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Coaching Culture with Ben Herring

Ben Herring

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Coaching Culture with Ben Herring is your weekly deep-dive into the often-overlooked “softer skills” of coaching—cultural innovation, communication, empathy, leadership, dealing with stress, and motivation. Each episode features candid conversations with the world’s top international rugby coaches, who share the personal stories and intangible insights behind their winning cultures, and too their biggest failures and learnings from them. This is where X’s and O’s meet heart and soul, empowering...

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Episodes (103)

Ben John: Building Community And Skill In Online Rugby

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When Kids Tackle Their Dads They Learn Faster

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Greg Cooper: Character will beat talent.

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Mar 22, 20261:00:45failed

How Rugby Coach Sam Vesty Prepares A Team For A Final

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Mar 18, 202611:57failed

Gavin Hickie: What Rugby can learn from Navy Culture

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Mar 15, 20261:00:31failed

Matt O'Connor: The Harsh Truths of Coaching Winning Teams

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Mar 8, 20261:00:01failed

Reflections: Farewell To A Quiet Architect Of Rugby

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Mar 3, 202612:49pending

Stu Woodhouse: Leading a school rugby program and an International side

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Mar 1, 20261:09:15pending

Stu Edwards: Looking after Coaches Mental Well Being

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Feb 25, 202657:15pending

Craig Newby: Losing Teaches What Winning Hides

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Feb 22, 20261:10:09pending

Reflections: Work Rate Beats Game IQ More Than Coaches Admit.

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Feb 18, 202610:37pending

Gordon Tietjens: I Coach Intensity Before Tactics

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Feb 15, 20261:02:00pending

Reflections: How to deal with Pressure

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Feb 11, 202614:14pending

Joey Mongalo: How to Deal with the Pressures of Coaching

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Feb 8, 20261:19:09pending

Reflections: How First and Last Moments Shape Coaching

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Feb 4, 202613:17pending

Andre Pretorius: Understand And Assist

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Feb 1, 20261:13:19pending

Reflection: Learning from a master coach

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Jan 28, 202610:46pending

Nick Evans: Removing the Burden of Outcome

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Jan 25, 20261:06:23pending

Reflections: Bens Coaching Playbook

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Jan 21, 202612:16pending

Ben Darwin: Why coaches get sacked.

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Jan 18, 20261:12:53pending

Reflections: Twenty Years, Five Lessons In Love And Coaching

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Jan 14, 202613:06pending

Zane Hilton: I Was A Bad Player, So I Coached Instead

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Jan 11, 20261:06:42pending

Reflections: Bens Book Review

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Jan 6, 202612:30pending

Andrew Hore: Hard Conversations Keep Standards High

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Jan 4, 20261:04:18pending

Reflections: Privilege, Context, And The Real Measure Of Coaching

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Dec 30, 202520:29pending

Warren Kennaugh: Your Team Is Not A Democracy, And That’s Okay

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Dec 28, 202544:43pending

Yes, We Ran A Christmas Beep Test And Loved It

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Dec 24, 20259:23pending

Chris Lendrum: Leading the leaders, running the NZRU

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Dec 21, 20251:10:20pending

Reflections: Small Players Tackle, Big Players Run

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Dec 17, 202511:38pending

Reflections: From D Team to the Working with the Worlds Best

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Dec 10, 202517:12pending

Augustine Pulu: How Coaches Can Create Monsters!

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Dec 7, 202558:58pending

Mike Catt: No Dumb Questions. Building Brave Team Cultures

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Dec 5, 20251:02:24pending

The Tony Brown Effect. How he has got the Springboks to a new level.

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Dec 3, 202512:18pending

Phil Dowson: How A Director Of Rugby Shapes Behavior, Balance, And Belief

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Nov 30, 20251:03:51pending

A reflective look at the philosophies of Eddie Jones.

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Nov 26, 202521:15pending

Nathan Grey: Toughness is a talent. Coaching the Red/Blue Head Mindset.

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Nov 23, 20251:03:25pending

You Don’t Need More Time; You Need Simpler, Sharper Sessions That Fit Your Team’...

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Nov 19, 202517:23pending

Sean Graham: Youth Rugby Coaching Masterclass. A Playbook for School Rugby Succe...

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Nov 16, 20251:00:03pending

Coaching Under Pressure: Owning Your Dark Traits

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Nov 12, 202515:35pending

Mick Byrne : From All Blacks to Fiji. How Self Awareness Creates Culture that La...

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Nov 9, 20251:05:37pending

Why Treating Parenting Like Coaching Creates Stronger Families And Teams

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Nov 5, 202518:41pending

Sam Wykes: Building Team Culture Through People, Not Facilities. A Sunwolves Cas...

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Nov 2, 20251:14:24pending

Define Culture Or Drift: Why Writing It Down Raises The Bar

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Oct 29, 202514:48pending

Ben Darwin: You Can't Out Coach the Numbers. Heres the Data to Prove it.

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Oct 26, 20251:19:33pending

How to reduce the anxiety your players feel

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Oct 22, 202511:19pending

Glen Jackson: Talent doesn't always win: Building culture in the Fijian Drua.

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Oct 19, 202554:22pending

Ken Grover: The World Is Your Classroom: How Rugby Tours Build Character.

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Oct 15, 202559:43pending

Eddie Jones on culture, risk, and advice to all coaches.

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Oct 12, 20251:02:54pending

How to Grow Leadership in Players who Don't Talk

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Oct 8, 202514:00pending

Jimmy Gopperth: What the Best Do Differently. Coaching Insights from the Worlds...

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